Fit Pregnancy For Dummies

Are you intrigued by the idea of working out during pregnancy, but
think it can’t be safe? Are you unsure how the words
fit and pregnancy actually make sense in the same
sentence? If so, you’ve come to the right place. This
easy-to-follow guide shows you how you can be fit and
pregnant, whether you’re new to exercise or have been working
out for years, and whether you’re in your second week of
pregnancy or your 32nd.

Fit Pregnancy For Dummies is for you if you’re
pregnant, if you’re thinking about becoming pregnant, and You
want to be as fit and healthy as you can be — whatever your
current fitness level — without in any way jeopardizing your
health or the health of your baby. This guide gives you the
straight facts on:

Staying safe when you exercise

Developing a plan with your health provider

Choosing the right equipment

Modifying your routine for each trimester

Eating well for nine months and beyond

From yoga and swimming to weight training, aerobics, and much
more, you’ll see how to get started with a fun, step-by-step
fitness routine that will make your entire pregnancy easier to
manage. Postpartum expert and prenatal fitness class instructor
Catherine Cram and fitness expert Tere Stouffer Drenth give you the
scoop on the activities that work best for pregnant women and how
to set up a routine that works best for you. You’ll
understand how a fit pregnancy helps you with delivery and
postpartum shape-up. Plus, you get expert advice on activities to
avoid, eating well, and staying motivated during and after your
pregnancy, as well as:

Dressing comfortably for your workout

Warming up and stretching to increase flexibility and avoid
injury

Modifying your exercise routine

Staying fit after giving birth

Finding the time for exercise and motherhood

Complete with special tips on exercising indoors, staying
motivated, getting your family hooked on fitness, and helping your
child grow up healthy and fit, Fit Pregnancy For Dummies is
the key to exercising safely and staying fit throughout your
pregnancy and beyond!

Catherine Cram is an exercise physiologist who specializes
in prenatal and postpartum fitness. Her consulting company,
Comprehensive Fitness Consulting, LLC, provides maternal fitness
certificate training courses for health and fitness professionals.
She’s an expert advisor to and writes for Baby Years,
Pregnancy, Women’s Health and Fitness, and
iparenting.com. Catherine has been featured in prenatal fitness
articles for Fit Pregnancy, Parenting, Glamour, Babytalk,
and The American Journal of Medicine and Sports, and is a
contributing author of Women’s Health Care in Physical
Therapy: Principles and Practices for Rehabilitation
Specialists (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins). You can
contact her at compfc@aol.com.

Tere Stouffer Drenth is both a full-time writer and a
semiprofessional runner who works, trains, hikes, and lives in
northern Michigan. A former crosscountry All-American, Tere (which
rhymes with Mary) writes about fitness and the outdoors in the hope
that people of all ages and backgrounds will challenge themselves
physically and reap the many rewards of exercise. She is the author
of Marathon Training For Dummies (Wiley) and several other
books. You can reach her at tdrenth@earthlink.net.

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